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Trailers to films by Peace River Films

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Geronimo and the Apache Resistance

The American Experience 1988 – 56 minutes
For the first time, the Chiricahua Apaches tell the story of Geronimo, their legendary 19th century leader and of the 25 years of warfare with the U.S. government that ended in peace in the American southwest and the permanent exile of these, the most resistant of all Apaches, to the loss of traditional homelands in Arizona and New Mexico.

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

The American Experience 1993 – 56 minutes
With Meryl Streep as the voice of Rachel Carson
This is a film about Rachel Carson and the book that helped to begin the modern environmental movement and which has had a profound effect on the conservation of marine and aquatic life, as well as the quality of air, water and soil in all environments. It tells the story of Rachel Carson’s realization of wide spread pollution from pesticides and of her struggle to write the book and battle critics after its publication.

Following the Tundra Wolf

ABC-TV, 1975 – 45 Minutes
Narrated by Robert Redford
The first film ever made about the wolf entirely in the wild, this was made in the Canadian Northwest Territories along the Arctic circle and is a living portrait of the tundra wolf and its principal prey, the barren ground caribou. Using pioneering photographic techniques to obtain unique animal behavior footage, it tells the story of the wolf, the predator that inhabits the human imagination like no other creature.

Super Bridge

NOVA, 1997 – 56 minutes
Narrated by Hal Holbrook
A two-hour film about the construction of a large cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River, to be broadcast on PBS in November of 1997.

The Iron Road

The American Experience 1990 – 56 minutes
A one-hour film about the building of the transcontinental railway between Sacramento and Omaha in the 1860’s featuring stunning landscape photography, historic photographs and interviews with railroaders and historians and members of the Lakota tribe.

The Sea Behind the Dunes

NOVA, 1980 – 56 Minutes
1980 by Peace River Films. This is a film about a year in the life of Pleasant Bay, at the elbow of Cape Cod, before the 1980’s break in the barrier beach. It follows the lives of marine life and birds of many kinds as they respond to the change of seasons through reproduction, predation, migration and hibernation. Wildlife, underwater and microscopic photography.

Still Waters

NOVA, 1978 – 56 Minutes
This is a film about a year in the life of a New England beaver pond. Like the Sea Behind the Dunes, it follows beavers, birds, fish, microscopic life, frogs, insects, snakes, deer and fox, as their life cycles respond to the seasons. Wildlife, underwater and microscopic photography.

A Desert Place

NOVA, 1976 – 56 Minutes
This is a film about a year in the life of the Sonoran Desert that stretches across the Southwestern quarter of Arizona. From winter snow squalls to searing summer heat, to summer lightning and flash floods, the film follows the remarkable life forms that have adapted to survive in one of North America’s harshest and most unforgiving environments.

The Shape of Things

NOVA, 1985 – 56 minutes
This is a film about patterns, structures and shapes in nature. Using plants, animals, crystals, fluids, and the ways in which they grow and move, the film explores how the intricate and beautiful geometries of nature are formed.

Hawaii Born of Fire

NOVA, 1993 – 56 Minutes
A one-hour film about the ways in which plants, animals and people coexist with the destructive power of a volcano on the island of Hawaii, broadcast in the fall of 1995.

The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders

NOVA, 1986 – 56 minutes
This film is about animal migrations. Most of them have to do with terrestrial and aerial migrations of birds and insects, but there-is a segment, with underwater photography and animation, on the migration of the eel back and forth between the Atlantic coast of North America and the Sargasso Sea.

City of Coral

NOVA, 1983 – 56 Minutes
This film is about a complex, stunningly beautiful ecosystem, at the heart of which is a Caribbean coral reef. It includes shore life, bird life, as well as marine life, the large and the very small, by day and by night.

Animal Imposters

NOVA, 1982 – 56 Minutes
1982 by Peace River Films. This is a film about camouflage, deceptive behavior, warning coloration and mimicry among animals. There are several aquatic sequences: alligator snapping turtles with tongue lures; wrasse-saber tooth blenny mimicry; animals camouflaged in Sargasso weed.

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Chapter 1, “I was a tough little stinker.”

I always thought of Floyd as a Vermonter born and bred, but one of the first things I learned was that he was born in Boston and grew up in Albany. His mother was from Sharon, Vermont, He hated the city, but told me he had figured out how to make it exciting. He said his father was a “vagabond”, running bootleg liquor for the mafia during prohibition, even taking Floyd along.

Chapter 2, World War Two, Churchill, Manitoba: “What in hell we doin’ up here?”

At 97, Floyd Van Alstyne is part of a shrinking cohort of people who fought in World War Two. His experience in Italy was harrowing, but it all began with what was essentially a secret mission to Churchill, Manitoba on the shore of Hudson Bay.

He told me he had been in the local logging camps since the age of 16. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, December 7, 1941, he enlisted at the age of 20. What followed came as a complete surprise and it took him to the subarctic, thousands of miles from the front lines.

Chapter 3, “On Anzio beach I did not think I was going to make it.”

Coming on November 10, 2017. Floyd told me that his life on the farm and in the logging camps of Vermont were what prepared him for the military and for the War. Life in the woods had made him tough and strong and by the time he entered the army he “was used to living dangerously.” So, when he had to face combat in the invasion of Italy in 1942, he “could take it better than some.”

Chapter 4, “Mother nature does as she wishes. You and I don’t mean much when it comes to mother nature.”

Coming on November 24, 2017. Back in Vermont, Floyd and his large family operate a working farm and they all are part of the annual production of hundreds lot gallons of maple syrup - all of it dependent on the vagaries of weather and climate.

Chapter 5, Logs To Lumber – One of the Most Dangerous Jobs

“I never went to high school. I went into the logging camps when I was 16.” And he went on to say, it was the best education he ever had. Using double-bitted axes literally sharp enough to shave with, he learned the old fashioned logging trade at a time when it was all done by hand and with horses and oxen. “It’s one of the most dangerous jobs there is.” Floyd has stayed with logging all his life and now operates a sawmill on his farm with his two grown sons.

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Past Appearances

Stormy Weather. Photographers battle the elements to obtain some of their most exciting images of the natural world. Rain, snow, sleet, fog, hail, thunderstorms, rainbows, cloudbursts--all these can result in stunning photographs.

August 20 - South Royalton History Fair

"Meet the Author". Neil Goodwin will be participating in the South Royalton History Fair. He will be speaking and reading from his book "We Go As Captives: The Royalton Raid and the Shadow War on the Revolutionary Frontier".

Oct. 22 Mount Independence State Historic Site

Neil Godwin, author of the popular recent book, We Go as Captives: The Royalton Raid and the Shadow War on the Revolutionary Frontier, discusses the background of the Royalton Raid and some of the intrigues of the war in this region.

PhotoPlace Gallery offers selected artists the opportunity to display their work in artist portfolios. A selection of 40 photographs by Neil Goodwin comprise a "Retrospective Portfolio" and is now on display. Now showing through November 2012.

City Streets | Country Roads

Standing with a camera on a busy city street corner may seem like the opposite of wandering down a country road with a tripod. Both situations, though, provide rich opportunities for profound photographs.

Mountains and Sea

Majestic mountains have the power to move us, from sublime views of mountain ranges to intimate scenes of mountain valleys. The ocean is also another compelling subject for photographers, in all its myriad forms.

Death Valley and Nevada Ghost Towns

I took these photographs during the course of a week spent exploring Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and the gold and silver mining regions of western Nevada. Many other semi-abandoned towns in western Nevada share a similar history, starting with the discovery in the late 19th century of rich ore deposits and the subsequent exhaustion or declining profitability of the mines. The timeless and evocative moonscapes of the deserts and Death Valley lie in eloquent contrast with the fleeting human enterprises of the area.